Jules Verne

"El Piloto del Danubio" ("Le pilote du Danube") es una novela del escritor franc s Jules Verne publicada p stumamente en forma de serial en "Le journal" desde el 24 de septiembre hasta el 2 de noviembre de 1908, y posteriormente en una edici n doble con "La caza del meteoro" el 15 de noviembre de ese mismo a o. Fue reescrita por Michel Verne bas ndose en la novela "Le beau Danube jaune" ("El hermoso Danubio amarillo"), escrita por Jules Verne. Un pescador decide batir la marca de navegaci n a lo largo del Danubio manteni ndose nicamente con el fruto de su pesca. La inusual situaci n provoca que un inspector de polic a piense que es responsable de una serie de delitos cometidos en el importante r o.

Hector Servadac est un roman d'aventures de Jules Verne, paru en 1877. Il s'agit d'un roman tout fait fantaisiste o l'auteur extrapole partir d'une hypoth se la rencontre de la Terre avec une com te, les cons quences la fois les plus inattendues et les plus rigoureusement logiques de la situation cr e. C'est l'un des ouvrages les plus dr les et hallucin s de Jules Verne. Les "Galliens" (Terriens temporairement expatri s sur la com te Gallia, nom donn par son inventeur, le Professeur Palmyrin Rosette) subissent une diminution de l'attraction terrestre, voient un satellite s'accrocher leur plan te ou encore les journ es raccourcir (de 24 6 heures), les ann es se modifier, le calendrier "gallien" supplanter le gr gorien, etc. En raison des hypoth ses astronomiques qu'il suppose connues, ce roman est davantage destin un public adulte, m me si les morceaux de bravoure des deux h ros, le capitaine et son ordonnance, bondissant cause de la l g ret de leurs montures travers les paysages de Gallia, donnent un ton l ger au r cit et abordable pour un lectorat plus jeune.

Journey to the Center of the Earth is a classic 1864 science fiction novel by Jules Verne. The story involves a professor who leads his nephew and hired guide down a volcano in Iceland to the "center of the Earth". They encounter many adventures, including prehistoric animals and natural hazards, eventually coming to the surface again in southern Italy.

A scholar and explorer, Dr. Samuel Ferguson, accompanied by his manservant Joe and his friend professional hunter Richard "Dick" Kennedy, sets out to travel across the African continent - still not fully explored - with the help of a balloon filled with hydrogen. He has invented a mechanism that, by eliminating the need to release gas or throw ballast overboard to control his altitude, allows very long trips to be taken. This voyage is meant to link together the voyages of Sir Richard Burton and John Hanning Speke in East Africa with those of Heinrich Barth in the regions of the Sahara and Chad.

Chapter 1 A CAPTAIN OF THE WOODS "P h y j s l y d d q f d z x g a s g z z q q e h x g k f n d r x u j u g I o c y t d x v k s b x h h u y p o h d v y r y m h u h p u y d k j o x p h e t o z l s l e t n p m v f f o v p d p a j x h y y n o j y g g a y m e q y n f u q l n m v l y f g s u z m q I z t l b q q y u g s q e u b v n r c r e d g r u z b l r m x y u h q h p z d r r g c r o h e p q x u f I v v r p l p h o n t h v d d q f h q s n t z h h h n f e p m q k y u u e x k t o g z g k y u u m f v I j d q d p z j q s y k r p l x h x q r y m v k l o h h h o t o z v d k s p p s u v j h d." THE MAN who held in his hand the document of which this strange assemblage of letters formed the concluding paragraph remained for some moments lost in thought. It contained about a hundred of these lines, with the letters at even distances, and undivided into words. It seemed to have been written many years before, and time had already laid his tawny finger on the sheet of good stout paper which was covered with the hieroglyphics. On what principle had these letters been arranged? He who held the paper was alone able to tell. With such cipher language it is as with the locks of some of our iron safes-in either case the protection is the same. The combinations which they lead to can be counted by millions, and no calculator's life would suffice to express them. Some particular "word" has to be known before the lock of the safe will act, and some "cipher" is necessary before that cryptogram can be read. He who had just reperused the document was but a simple "captain of the woods." Under the name of "Capitaes do Mato" are known in Brazil those individuals who are engaged in the recapture of fugitive slaves. The institution dates from 1722. At that period anti-slavery ideas had entered the minds of a few philanthropists, and more than a century had to elapse before the mass of the people grasped and applied them. That freedom was a right, that the very first of the natural rights of man was to be free and to belong only to himself, would seem to be self-evident, and yet thousands of years had to pass before the glorious thought was generally accepted, and the nations of the earth had the courage to proclaim it.

Jules Gabriel Verne was a French novelist, poet, and playwright. Verne is generally considered a major literary author in France and most of Europe, where he has had a wide influence on the literary avant-garde and on surrealism. His reputation is markedly different in Anglophone regions, where he has often been labeled a writer of genre fiction or children's books, largely because of the highly abridged and altered translations in which his novels are often reprinted. He has sometimes been called the "Father of Science Fiction."

L'histoire du roman se d roule aux tats-Unis, en 1862, c'est- -dire pendant la guerre de S cession, qui se terminera par la reddition du g n ral Lee sudiste au g n ral Grant nordiste en 1865. Le th tre des v nements en est la Floride, du septentrion o se trouve la plantation du h ros, "Camdless-Bay", au m ridien o se situe le d nouement du r cit dans les Everglades, ces marais insalubres la navigation difficile. L'action se d roule tout au long du fleuve Saint-John, sur lequel la navigation se fait bord des grands bateaux vapeur et roues aubes pour les riches colons, la population pauvre naviguant, elle, bord des squiffs. James Burbank, propri taire d'une plantation en Floride, est un homme de quarante-cinq ans originaire du Nord dans un tat du sud de l'Union. Le colon emploie des noirs sur sa plantation, en appliquant des principes d'humanit et d' galit des races, en avance sur son temps et en contradiction avec les id es des "petits blancs" et de la "populace" dont se composaient les autochtones l' poque du r cit (ces termes entre guillemets sont ceux de Jules Verne). Burbank p re fait travailler ses Noirs librement et les affranchit apr s avoir t d fi par les partisans de l'esclavage - la t te desquels se trouve son pire ennemi, le bandit de grand chemin Texar -, de mettre ses actes en conformit avec ses id es. Il s'agissait en r alit d'un pi ge puisque, peu apr s, Texar se fait lire la t te des magistrats de Jacksonville et accuse James Burbank d' tre un tra tre au profit de l'arm e nordiste, car son fils Gilbert s'est engag dans l'arm e des Bleus pour combattre les s cessionnistes. Texar fait ainsi voter un d cret qui ordonne le d part du territoire floridien des affranchis, ce quoi ne peut bien entendu se r soudre ni le colon ni ses Noirs qui d sirent rester volontairement et en pleine libert au service de celui-ci, dont la g n rosit est notoire. L'application de ce d cret est pr texte une exp dition punitive sur Camdless-Bay, la t te de laquelle Texar se place, o les ex-esclaves sont chass s ou tu s, leurs barracons pill s puis incendi s, malgr la d fense h ro que de James Burbank et des siens (son beau-fr re Edward Carroll, le p re de sa future bru Walter Stannard et cette derni re, Alice, dont la m re d c d e tait fran aise).

The crew was not satisfied. The cargo of the "Pilgrim" was at least two hundred barrels of oil short. There had never been worse fishing. Captain Hull felt the disappointment of a hunter who, for the first time, returns as he went away-or nearly so. His self-love, greatly excited, was at stake, and he did not pardon those scoundrels whose insubordination had compromised the results of his cruise. It was in vain that he endeavored to recruit a new fishing crew at Auckland. All the disposable seamen were embarked on the other whaling vessels. He was thus obliged to give up the hope of completing the "Pilgrim's" cargo, and Captain Hull was preparing to leave Auckland definitely, when a request for a passage was made which he could not refuse. Mrs.

Sans dessus dessous est un roman d'anticipation de Jules Verne, paru en 18891, dans lequel certains personnages de De la Terre la Lune r apparaissent. Les protagonistes de Sans dessus dessous, qui sont les artilleurs du Gun-Club de Baltimore, ayant projet d'envoyer un projectile se poser sur la Lune, tentent ici de mettre en application une des revendications exprim es lors du meeting de Tampa-Town (De la Terre la Lune): redresser l'axe de rotation de la Terre pour le rendre perpendiculaire au plan de l' cliptique L'op ration projet e est cens e se faire au moyen d'un prodigieux coup de canon, tir d'un emplacement tenu secret pendant presque toute la dur e du livre. Et le pr texte donn est l'exploitation du charbon des zones arctiques (mais les protagonistes avouent eux-m mes tre bien plus int ress s par la d monstration de puissance en elle-m me qu'est le redressement plan taire). Pour r pondre aux critiques d'amateurisme scientifique re ues au sujet de livres pr c dents, Jules Verne fait r diger par son ami Albert Badoureau un Chapitre suppl mentaire explicatif pr sent en fin d'ouvrage.

No doubt the following narrative will be received: with entire incredulity, but I think it well that the public should be put in possession of the facts narrated in "An Antarctic Mystery." The public is free to believe them or not, at its good pleasure. No more appropriate scene for the wonderful and terrible adventures which I am about to relate could be imagined than the Desolation Islands, so called, in 1779, by Captain Cook. I lived there for several weeks, and I can affirm, on the evidence of my own eyes and my own experience, that the famous English explorer and navigator was happily inspired when he gave the islands that significant name. Geographical nomenclature, however, insists on the name of Kerguelen, which is generally adopted for the group which lies in 49 45' south latitude, and 69 6' east longitude. This is just, because in 1772, Baron Kerguelen, a Frenchman, was the first to discover those islands in the southern part of the Indian Ocean. Indeed, the commander of the squadron on that voyage believed that he had found a new continent on the limit of the Antarctic seas, but in the course of a second expedition he recognized his error. There was only an archipelago. I may be believed when I assert that Desolation Islands is the only suitable name for this group of three hundred isles or islets in the midst of the vast expanse of ocean, which is constantly disturbed by austral storms. Nevertheless, the group is inhabited, and the number of Europeans and Americans who formed the nucleus of the Kerguelen population at the date of the 2nd of August, 1839, had been augmented for two months past by a unit in my person. Just then I was waiting for an opportunity of leaving the place, having completed the geological and mineralogical studies which had brought me to the group in general and to Christmas Harbour in particular. Christmas Harbour belongs to the most important islet of the archipelago, one that is about half as large as Corsica. It is safe, and easy, and free of access. Your ship may ride securely at single anchor in its waters, while the bay remains free from ice. The Kerguelens possess hundreds of other fjords. Their coasts are notched and ragged, especially in the parts between the north and the south-east, where little islets abound. The soil, of volcanic origin, is composed of quartz, mixed with a bluish stone. In summer it is covered with green mosses, grey lichens, various hardy plants, especially wild saxifrage.

This novel involves how Joam Garral, a ranch owner who lives near the Peruvian-Brazilian border on the Amazon River, is forced to travel down-stream when his past catches up with him. Most of the novel is situated on a large jangada (a Brazilian timber raft) that is used by Garral and his family to float to Bel m at the river's mouth. Many aspects of the raft, scenery, and journey are described in detail.

Jules Gabriel Verne was a French novelist, poet, and playwright. Verne is generally considered a major literary author in France and most of Europe, where he has had a wide influence on the literary avant-garde and on surrealism. His reputation is markedly different in Anglophone regions, where he has often been labeled a writer of genre fiction or children's books, largely because of the highly abridged and altered translations in which his novels are often reprinted. He has sometimes been called the "Father of Science Fiction."

Jules Gabriel Verne was a French novelist, poet, and playwright. Verne is generally considered a major literary author in France and most of Europe, where he has had a wide influence on the literary avant-garde and on surrealism. His reputation is markedly different in Anglophone regions, where he has often been labeled a writer of genre fiction or children's books, largely because of the highly abridged and altered translations in which his novels are often reprinted. He has sometimes been called the "Father of Science Fiction."